21st December 2006, 11:48 AM
Late 80s. On graduating got an offer of employment for a 'research dig' in Jersey. Lovely site - I'd volunteered the year before. Got there to find out there was a shortfall in funding, but they would 'put me right'. That amounted to the odd pint over the first fortnight. Thereafter nothing. No washing facilities. Very dry site so perspiration and dust combined to give me a very strange complexion. Spent the final two weeks subsisting on Jersey potatoes nicked from the local farms. I USED to like Jersey potatoes....